Chapter 331: GTA5 Begins

"Xiao Mo, sister invites you to watch 'Zhu Xian'!"

"Uh..." Zou Mo had an embarrassed look on his face.

Ruan Ning, who had finally returned, had pretty much experienced the first great rise and fall of her life. However, being somewhat scatterbrained, it felt as if she had just had a dream. Upon waking up the next day, except for occasionally feeling a bit of lingering fear and her body being slightly weak, everything else seemed fine.

Everything seemed to return to tranquility very quickly, just like usual: "Boss, give me a bowl of instant noodles, and add a sausage."

Only her way of speaking was a bit lazy, and she couldn't help but yawn, her mental state clearly very average.

"I said nothing would happen, isn't this perfectly fine?" Owner Fang smoothly grabbed a box of instant noodles for himself as well, speaking casually.

"Who says nothing happened?! This old lady had nightmares all night yesterday! The entire night!" Instantly baring her fangs and brandishing her claws, her whole body about to jump up, she suddenly appeared much more energetic compared to her previous laziness.

"Hmm? Boss." She suddenly discovered something and pointed at the small blackboard, "New game: Grand Theft Auto V, what on earth is this?"

She actually discovered that a new game had been released in the shop!

Moreover, the price was super expensive. An activation price of 45 crystal crystals for the offline mode, plus an activation price of 10 crystal crystals per week for the online mode; added together, perhaps only Acts One through Five of "Diablo 2" could compare to it.

And the reason they knew about Diablo here was also from hearing about it from some players of the Great Jin State.

In other words, apart from the "My Space" mini-game, this was the second proper game in the Morning Star Sea Region.

"A new game came out today?!" Ruan Ning's eyes lit up grandly, full of energy.

"The Legend" had developed for so long, and the main player community within it could be said to have already taken shape, which was the big guild players. For someone like her who didn't go to take Sand, nor wanted to fight for number one in the world, there was no need to soak inside it all day long; maintaining upper-middle equipment and strength was enough.

Therefore, compared to some large guilds that exerted all their strength wanting to take Sand, they naturally did not have such long-term motivation.

This was also the reason why some players would still normally go to Owner Fang's space to play King of Fighters and play other things.

"New game?" Liu Ningyun walked into the shop. She originally didn't play Legend much, but ever since her own master bought a copy of "Magic Shield", she had to spend time every day bringing her along to level up. It felt like carrying a giant baby; this she didn't know, that also needed to be taught, and if she got unhappy, she still had to speak in gentle whispers. After all, she couldn't be disrespectful to her own master, right?

The game experience was practically negative.

So having a new game at this time was very friendly to her.

"Grand Theft Auto V?" A pair of beautiful eyes stared at the name, and suddenly her expression collapsed, "Boss, this isn't going to make us go steal cars, is it?"

Owner Fang said with a straight face, "If you want to steal, no one told you not to steal."

"Bah! Bah! Bah! You're the one who wants to steal!"

"Yun'er." Right at this moment, Perfected Cultivator Xichi's voice resounded from behind, as warm as a spring breeze, "How about carrying Master to train for levels a bit later?"

But hearing it in Liu Ningyun's heart was like a bleak autumn wind, instantly causing a shiver: "Master, how about we try the new game first?..."

Literally shedding tears across her face.

"Hmm... daily leveling and treasure hunting does seem a bit monotonous." Perfected Cultivator Xichi nodded and said, "Trying a new game for a change of pace is not bad either, it's just this 'Grand Theft Auto V'..."

Her pair of cold eyes stared toward Fang Qi. Grand theft could be understood, but adding the words auto theft together...

Emmmmm...

"Boss, one can learn various spells in 'The Legend', but this... could it be about how to be a small thief?" She snorted coldly, "If that is the case, this seat absolutely does not intend to try it."

"Do you think the games in this boss's shop would be that boring?" Owner Fang said with a straight face, "This is a game to experience life."

"Experience..."

"Life?!"

Everyone present was somewhat at a complete loss.

In "Grand Theft Auto V", what the players played, most of the time of course was not a small thief.

"Then this young lady will try it first." Ruan Ning was the first to express a desire to try. After all, in Owner Fang's shop, from Legend to various movies and TV dramas, and then to various mini-games, the reputation was excellent, absolutely worthy of trust.

This game was so expensive, so naturally it would have quite a lot of things worthy of her investment.

"Boss, is this the game newly released today?" If there was nothing urgent, most people would rush to the Origin Internet Club early in the morning. If there was something... then push it to the evening, for example, Ning Bi.

The ones who paid first intending to try were Ruan Ning, Perfected Cultivator Xichi, and others. Spending a few crystal crystals to try the new thing in the shop was not bad either.

After all, with the strangely named "Harry Potter" as a fine example before, now regarding this equally strangely named "Grand Theft Auto V", most people didn't have any mentality of rejection.

Soon the game was activated. The game began, and by the time several people entered the game, a blurry picture began to appear on the screen: multi-colored lights were just like the colors of neon lights in a dream, interspersed with the sounds of cars, sirens, and faint gunshots. Below the screen, the LOGO that every single-player masterpiece had could also be seen.

Of course, different from Diablo's Blizzard LOGO, this one was Rockstar.

If the protagonists in many games and novels were usually shaped into heroes, then this game was precisely the opposite, appearing much more realistic.

Location North Yankton, time 9 years ago.

Regarding these strange place names, after experiencing "Harry Potter", they were clearly somewhat unsurprised. After all, "Harry Potter" was likewise in modern society and likewise used these peculiar languages and characters.

To them, this was like another civilization in another corner of the world, or even like the outside world recorded in ancient ruin documents, or the state before those bizarre ancient civilizations were destroyed, who knows?

Even it being a completely fabricated world, with no such world existing in reality at all, was not impossible.

After all, it was a world of virtual reality, not the real world.

(It was pretty much equivalent to modern people looking at a steampunk-style game world or a magic and fantasy-style game world)

Quite a few people were standing behind watching at this time. Some were holding a bowl of instant noodles, for example, Mo Tianxing; some were using a straw to leisurely drink cola, for example, Ning Bi; even the Black Demon, who was still eating breakfast at this time, came to join in the fun.

Gunfire lit up the darkness, and then a picture appeared before everyone: "Alright, as long as you cooperate, nobody gets hurt."

Before them was a man wearing a black ski mask, holding a submachine gun in his hand. If it were a player from Jiuhua City, they would naturally recognize it at this time, as the dress was extremely similar to the terrorists in Counter-Strike.

And the surroundings... seemed to be near a bank vault, and judging by the scale, it didn't seem small.

However, the players of Half-City were clearly very dazed, and what they controlled was precisely one of the robbers.

Bank robbery in progress...

Perfected Cultivator Xichi was even more dazed, looking at the submachine gun in her hand: "What is this thing for?"

At this time, a prompt appeared in the game, aiming at the hostages to force them to leave.

Looking at the trigger: "It seems to be... pressing this?"

"Da da da da da..."

"Ah... Ow!" A burst of miserable screams.

The hostages were all dead.

Eyes wide open: "..."

Dazed.

Clearly, robbery also seemed to be a technical job.

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